Category Archives: Literature

Ellen Banda-Aaku is an award-winning writer and patron of The Pelican Post. Among many other awards, Ellen’s first published book, Wandi’s Little Voice, won the Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa in 2004 and ...

Helen Oyeyemi is the black British author of The Icarus Girl, a critically acclaimed novel she wrote as a teenager studying for her A levels. She is without doubt a young black British talent of note. The Icarus ...

Meet Ireti, one of the first wave of Nigerian kickass female comic book heroes fighting to bring justice to the streets of Nigeria. By daytime she is Bidemi Ogunde who lives in the Yoruba Kingdom. By night Bidemi turns ...

The British Library launched West Africa: Words, Symbol, Song last week, a major exhibition which will run until 16 February 2016. Four years in the making, this exhibition is a walk through a treasure trove of west ...

As Black History Month ends, Film Africa begins, extending our enjoyment of African culture into November. Back for its fifth consecutive year, the festival brings the best of African cinema, from the continent and ...

The genocide which took place in Rwanda in 1994 was inconceivable after the horror of the Holocaust. To think that the world could allow 1,952,078 people to be massacred over 100 days will remain a deep scar in the ...

Benjamin Kwakye is a voice to be heard. The Ghanaian novelist has written four works of fiction and countless short stories. His first novel, The Clothes of Nakedness, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013, We Need New Names is a coming-of-age debut by NoViolet Bulawayo from Zimbabwe. It is beautifully narrated by 10-year-old Darling and for this reason alone, it is on the ...